"I tell you truly that you would certainly not get out from there until you had paid back the last cent.

"Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits worse than itself; and they enter in and dwell there. And the last state of that man is worse than the first. So shall it be with this wicked generation."

"But many who are first shall be last, and many who are last shall be first.

"And when evening came, the Lord of the vineyard said to his steward, "'Call the workmen and pay them their wages, beginning with the last hired and ending with the first.'

"'Those last men,' they said, 'have toiled only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden and the burning heat of the day.'

"Take your wage and begone! I chose to give to this last man the same as to you.

"So the last shall be first, and the first, last."

"Which of these two did the will of his father?" "The last," they replied. "I tell you truly," said Jesus, "that the tax-gatherers and harlots are going into the kingdom of heaven before you!

And last he sent his son to them; 'Surely they will respect my son,' he said.

"Last of all the woman died.

However, at last two came forward who said, "This fellow declared, 'I can destroy the Temple of God and build it in three days.'"

At last, when they had finished their mocking, they took the robe off, and put his own garments on him, and led him away to crucify him.

Now therefore give order to have the sepulcher securely guarded until the third day, for fear his disciples may come and steal him away, and then tell the people, 'He is risen from the dead'; and so the last error will be worse than the first."